ESY - School Bus Driver - ANTICIPATED

Position Details

• Title: Bus Driver
• Job : 63951
• Location: ARC
• Date Posted: May 11, 2026
• Final date to receive applications: May 18, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.
• Term of Employment: June 15, 2026 to July 17, 2026
• Salary: Per Ohio County Schools Salary Schedule
• Reports To: Central Office Professional Administrator in Charge of Transportation

To provide safe and efficient transportation so that students may enjoy the fullest possible advantages from the system's curricular and extra‑curricular programs.

• Drive a school bus on assigned routes, picking up and discharging children at designated locations.
• Keep to assigned schedule.
• Observe all mandatory safety regulations for school buses.
• Maintain discipline when students are on the bus.
• Report undisciplined students to proper authorities using the correct procedures.
• Meet with school administrators, parents, and students, when necessary, to resolve situations that could affect the safe operation of the school bus.
• Keep the assigned bus clean and notify the coordinator of vehicle maintenance or needed repairs.
• Prepare reports to the administrator for transportation as required.
• Accept curricular and extra‑curricular trips when necessary.
• Exercise responsible leadership when on out‑of‑county school trips.
• Report all accidents to the administrator for transportation and complete required reports.
• Participate in regularly scheduled staff development conducted by Ohio County Schools.
• Submit to federally required pre‑employment, random, reasonable suspicion, post‑accident, and return‑to‑duty controlled substances and alcohol testing upon request.
• Perform other duties assigned by the administrator for transportation.
• Maintain positive work habits.
• Perform duties efficiently and productively.
• Maintain and/or upgrade skills.

• Any combination of training and experience that would lead to successful employment as a bus driver.
• Possession of a valid state of West Virginia Commercial Drivers License, Class B (passenger endorsement).
• Knowledge of the road and street system of the county, ability to effectively control the action of children of different ages riding the school buses, thorough knowledge of safety measures to protect children using school buses, ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Successful completion of the West Virginia School Bus Operators Program presented by Ohio County Schools Transportation Department.

Apply online at  Applicants not completing the online application will not be considered for the position. For questions on the application process, contact Human Resources at .

Equal employment opportunity will be granted to all persons, regardless of race, religion, color, sex or national origin, and no discrimination based upon such factors will be made in salary, promotion, demotion, transfer, or termination of any employee. It is a policy of the Ohio County Board of Education not to discriminate on the basis of sex in employment as required by Title IX of the 1972 education amendments.

It is a policy of Ohio County to provide equal opportunity for the disabled per federal regulation 504.

Holidays, closed days, and calamitous days are without pay. Term of employment:
June 15, 2026 to July 17, 2026.